Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell
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The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.
Richard Quest
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky
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We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.
Tom Freston
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Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.
Tom Frieden
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it.
Nicolas Sarkozy
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I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.
Kamala Harris
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I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
Roger Ebert
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Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.
Alana Stewart
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If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you.
Ryan Holiday
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
Iain McGilchrist
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Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about a problem, these facts would somehow arrange themselves in a compelling and true solution.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.'
Mark Frauenfelder
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
Harold S. Geneen
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The facts of science are real enough, and so are the techniques that scientists use, and so are the technologies based on them. But the belief system that governs conventional scientific thinking is an act of faith.
Rupert Sheldrake
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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
Theodore Sturgeon
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I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.
Martin Bashir
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
Fran Tarkenton
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The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.
Martin Van Creveld
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic facts of his life.
Mark Strand
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
Frances Wright
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